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TYLER, CHAN DLER -& STAN DISH.

Lighting Device.

Patented Jan. 15,1867,

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'PHILOS TYLER AND WILLIAM M. CHANDLER, O F SPRINGFIED, MASSACHUSETTS, AND L. F. STANDISH, OF CHIOOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO REPEATING LIGHT COMPANY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 61,234, dated January 15, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR LIGHTING LAMBS, GAS-BURNERS, (its.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, PHI-L05 B. TYLER and WILLIAM M. CHANDLER, of Springfield, in the State of Massachusetts, and L. F. S'rAND'ISII, of Chicopcc, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful improvements in the Apparatus for Lighting Lamps, Gas-Burners, &c.; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of' this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a kerosene lamp-burnerfwith our said invention attached; and

Figure 2, a vertical section, taken at right angles to the plane of the wick.

Our said invention consists in combining with the wick-tube or gas-burner, and in close proximity therewith, a tube or equivalent apparatus for containing and controlling a continuous or repeating match, and an iguiter, so that the means for lighting the wick or gas shall be present at all times. By such means we avoid all the inconveniences experienced in the use of ordinary matches, which are not at all times within reach when wanted; and if a globe or chimney be used the necessity of removing it is avoided,

We will describe and represent our said invention as applied to the burner of a kerosene lamp, because that is the kind of lamp which is the most inconvenient to light with the means heretofore employed for the purpose.

In 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings, a represents the usual form of kerosene lamp-cap with its wicktube 6, the metal deflector and chimney being represented by dotted lines. By the side of the wick-tube there is a match-tube, c, of the required size to receive a continuous or repeating match, (Z, such as described in Letters Patent granted to us, and bearing date-the 7th day of November, 1865, saturated with stearine or other equivalent substance, which, when ignited, will produce a flame; and the substance or preparation to ignite by friction may be continuous. or at given and equal or nearly equal distances apart. The strip of continuous or repeatiug match (1 slides in the said tube a, which extends downinto the body of the lamp. .The extension of this tube, to contain a considerable length of match, may be either straight, as represented, or it may be of any other form to suit the fancy or judgment of the constructor. This tube r: is provided with a feeder,f, which feedcr is a small wheel, the shaft of which extends through to the outer side of the lamp-cap, and is there providedwith a thumb and finger-wheel, g. The feeder-wheel is cut out in sections, so that when turned each projecting section will feed or move the match the required distance and enable the person turning it to, readily feel when the matchhas been lifted to a sui'licicnt distance above the upper end of the match-tube. For the purpose of igniting the match after it has been elevated as before stated, there is within the match-tube a vibrating arm, h, mounted on a small arbor, '2', which extends to the outside of the lamp-cap, where it is provided with a handle, j, by which the arm can be vibrated or moved across the surface of the match, so that its upper end, which is bent over and formezl with a pointed or roughened lip, may make friction on the surface of the match to ignite it; but, as an equivalent, when the match is not continuous the vibrating arm may be dispensed with and the roughened surface made stationary, so that when the match is projected by the feeder, the ignitable matter, in passing the roughened surface, will beignited. The match, when ignited, will produce a flame in such close proximity to the wick asto lgnitc it, and so soon as the match burns down near to the ripper end of the tube, which cuts off the further supply ofair, it will be extinguished. If desired, the burned portion of the match may be removed by a whipper projecting from a tubular arbor or sleeve on the arbor Land extending to the outside of the lamp-cap, where it can be provided with a thumb and finger-wheel; and by giving a slight turn to this wheel the whipper will be vibrated and pa s above the upper end of the match-tube and knock off the charred portion of the match, which will fall to the bottom of the cap. Incase the vibrating igniter is not used as above suggested, the vibrating arm of the igmter can be extended up to constitute the whipper, The match-tube is represented as adjoining the wick-tube, but it may be constructed with a space between the two for the pasof a current of air which will prevent the match-tube from being overheated. If desired, however, a nonconductor of caloric may be intcrposed'between the two tubes. The match-tube and its appendages, if desired, ma be mounted in sui table slides in the lamp-cap, so that it can belifted up to the level of the wick for the purpose of lighting'it, and then depressed, or these may be stationary and the wick-tubemay be mounted in suitable slides so as to be dorresse'd to the level of the match, and when the wick has been lighted elevated to the height required for burning. We would remark, however, that we have successfully worked the mode of application first above described, and deem it to .be the best.

We are aware that lamp-tops or caps hate been madeiwith an aperture at the side through which an ordinary match can be inserted, and with a roughened surface placed in close proximity with the wick-tube, so

that when the match is forced in by hand it will be ignited to light the wick without the necessity of removing the deflector, chimney, or globe which encloses the wick; and therefore we do not claim broadly ameans of lightmg lamps or gas-burners without removing the deflector, chimney, or globe.

What we do claim as new, and desire to secure by' Letters Patent, is-

The tube and its appendages for'holding and controlling a continuous. or repeating match, substahtially as herein described, in combination with the wick-tube or equivalent gas-burner and an igriiter, substantially as described,- and for the purpose specified.

' r PHILOS B. TYLER,

WM. M CHANDLER, Witnesses: I L. F. STAN-DISH.

WM. H. BISHOP, a CHARLES Srsmv... 

